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Amazon should be “ashamed” of its poor workplace safety practices, the GMB union said after an investigation found that ambulances were called to the online retailer’s UK warehouses 600 times in the last three years.

The UK government is to review the statement of fitness for work in the MED3 form (known as the fit note) signed by GPs for workers off sick after the Department for Work and Pensions published a draft consultation document, aimed at getting disabled people and those with long-term illnesses back to work.